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Alzheimer’s disease – Old friends and new promises

Prof Vanessa Steenkamp and the Phytomedicine Unit in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Pretoria (UP), are involved in research to obtain safer and more efficacious treatments for Alzheimer’s disease.
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Satellites to aid in the fight against malaria

Research activities between the UP CSMC and French partners will focus on the expansion of predictive malaria-risk maps to investigate the impacts of climate variability and changes on the occurrence and intensity of malaria epidemics.
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A contemporary approach to adolescent and child mental healthcare

The Parent-Child Programme focusses on exploring caregiver–child relationships, behavioural techniques and working with children and adolescents with special needs related to mental health.
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Centre for Human Rights launches a glossary of human rights terms in Tigrinya

The Centre for Human Rights (CHR) at the University of Pretoria’s Faculty of Law, in ...

The Afrikaans actuality programme, Prontuit, covered human trafficking in South Africa. The program included an interview with Dr Amanda van der Westhuizen, a Counselling Psychologist in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pretoria, who spoke about the broader scope and social impact of modern slavery.

Dumisani Hlophe shares his thoughts on responsible leadership in the public sector

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22 July 2015

Since the beginning of 2015, Research Tuesdays has become a permanent feature on the the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership (ALCRL) calendar. The aim of these sessions is to gather all our PhD students to share their research progress and challenges, as well as to invite experts from the broader field of responsible leadership to share their knowledge.

‘Disabled children are equally entitled to an exciting and brilliant future.’ These words were spoken by Nelson Mandela during the opening of the First Annual South African Junior Wheelchair Sports Camp in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 4 December 1994.

The University of Pretoria (UP) is proud to have hosted a public lecture by Sir Mark Walport, UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA) and Head of the UK Government Office for Science, on 17 July 2015.

Three UP students attended the MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program Convening

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20 July 2015

The MasterCard Foundation recently held its third Tertiary Scholars Program Convening in June during which university level scholars from across the Program came together to meet and talk about critical issues.

Dr Willem Fourie from the Department of Dogmatics and Christian Ethics in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria, in collaboration with Suzanne van der Merwe and Ben van der Merwe, both from the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership, recently published an informative and helpful research article titled, Sixty years of research on leadership in Africa: A review of the literature, in the journal Leadership.

Mandela Day: GIBS, in collaboration with LeadSA, volunteer their time to local NGOs

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17 July 2015

In honour of what would have been Madiba’s 97th birthday, coaches and faculty members of the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) will be volunteering two hours of their time on 17 July at the Illovo campus.

Cutting-edge training courses in Marketing Research to be offered from 2016

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16 July 2015

Following a programme review and extensive industry feedback, the format of the GfK programme in Marketing Research offered by the Department of Marketing Management at the University of Pretoria (UP) will be changed in 2016.

With the increasing resistance of parasites and micro-organisms to commercially available anti-parasitic and antimicrobial drugs, the need to find treatments that improve animal and human health is fast becoming a necessity.

Prof Johann Kirsten, Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development was recently appointed as the Editor of Agrekon, published by Taylor and Francis and indexed by Scopus and Web of Science. He succeeds Prof André Jooste who was Agrekon editor since 2010.

UP CSMC and French space agency join forces in the fight against malaria

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09 July 2015

The University of Pretoria’s Centre for Sustainable Malaria Control (UP CSMC) and the French Embassy in Pretoria co-hosted a workshop to explore the potential of a joint research programme using remote sensing.